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Old 29th May 2004, 11:37
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Daysleeper
 
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I can imagine unmanned freighters in 20-30 years,
I cant. As a freight pilot in 20 years I will be flying aircraft that are being delivered today. We mainly buy 20+ year old aircraft.
The other point is GPS is going on 20 years old and we still cant use it for approaches, So why would UAV's have any shorter a gestation to commercial certification. Thirdly can UAV's fly non radar enviroment NDB to circling approaches to greek islands on changeover day. Er No.

Bit more work required methinks.
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